installer program (patched, using the Oct 22 boot disk and updates disk) says that it can't upgrade because there are no linux partitions. Here is what fdisk has to say, when run from the currently installed 6.0: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1869. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 72 1869 14442435 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 8 71 514080 6 FAT16 /dev/hda3 * 1 7 56196 16 Hidden FAT16 /dev/hda5 * 72 263 1542208+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 264 326 506016 83 Linux /dev/hda7 327 343 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 344 1869 12257563+ 83 Linux
This is a known bug with the installer not being able to see past type "f" partitions. The workaround is to convert the partition to type "5" for the duration of the upgrade and then convert it back to type "f" after you have completed the upgrade. In addition, we should be releasing another updates disk here this week (fingers crossed) which will solve this problem without having to muck with the partition type. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5511 ***